Game apparatus



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A. B. BULLARD.

GAME APPARATUS.

No. 243,688. Patented July 5, 1881.

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ANNA B. BULLARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GAME APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,688, dated July 5,1881,

Application filed April 23, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ANNA B. BULLARD, ofBoston, county of Sufiolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented anImprovement in Game Apparatus, of which the following descrip tion, inconnection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

This invention relates to an improv'ed game apparatus in the nature of apuzzle, and designed for home or evening amusement.

My apparatus, viewed as an improved article of manufacture, comprises aset of at least six movable figures and a series of at least sevenspots, spaces, or squares arranged on a horizontal surface, preferably acard, paper, or cloth, adapted to serve as or to be placed at the bottomof a box, thus making or constituting a receptacle to retain the movablefigures and form a suitable box-like package.

Figure 1 represents the horizontal surface forming part of my gameapparatus arranged within the bottom ot'a box, which, in practice, willhave acover to retain in the said box the movable figures, the sevenspaces therein tobe occupied by the movable figures being numbered anddesignated by the large circles, the said figure of the drawings showingwithin the said spaces by the smaller solid black and sectioned spotsthe two sets of movable figures or active members of m y'game apparatus.Fig.

2 represents the top of the box or cover, portrayin g movable figuresarranged for forward movement and change of position in accordance withthe plan of the game; and Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the box and lidwith one of the figures within-the box.

The object of the game is to provide at least two sets of movablefigures, containing three figures in each set contrasted with each otherin color or size, so as to appear as opponents, to place one set ofthese movable figures in three of the spaces at one end of the row ofspaces, and the other set on the three spaces at the opposite end of therow, and by moving each one of the separate movable figures singly inone direction only or j umping' one figure over the other cause the twosets of movable figures to exchan ge places or pass from one end of theline to the other over the intermediate space, each movable figure occu-(No model.)

pying in its journey a separate space. This is seemingly an easy problemto solve, but without considerable thought is difficult to performcorrectly, and the occupation affords amusement, and makes, therefore, avaluable game apparatus asa new article of manufacture, and one whichwill have great demand and sale. In practice I propose to make thesemovable figures to carry out the idea suggest ed in Fig. 20f thedrawings, and make halfot' them to represent toads and the other halffrogs; but it is obvious that 1 might select other objects instead oftoads and frogs, and might use checker-men or movable blocks.

I do not limit myself to the exact number of blocks, as more than thoseshown may be used.

In the drawings, It represents the horizontal surface, of paper, wood,or other suitable substance, forming the body of a box, with sevenspaces, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, therein portrayed, or delineated therein as largeplain circles or lily-pads. One set of three movable figures isrepresented by the black spots a b c and the other set by the sectionedspots d ef, each set being arranged at its own end of the line ofspaces, with the space 4 between them vacant.

The change of position can only be made as follows: move (1 to space 4,c to space 5, b to space 3,01 to space 2, e to space 4, f to space 6, cto space 7, b to space 5, a to space 3, d to space 1, e to space 2,ftospace 4, b to space 6, a to space 5, and fto space 3, or in the reverseorder.

The cover of the box is marked as.

I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, a game apparatuscomposed of a supporting or foundation surface or card having at leastsev-. en spaces and two sets of movable figures of at least threefigures to a set, all as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ANNA. B. BULLARI).

Witnesses:

J 0s. 1?. LIvEEMoRE, N. E. O. WHITNEY.

